The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-09-22
Morning Star.1.
Rev. Hamilton j. Carr.

age. lie was born IN Cayuga Co, N. T.,
but early came to Ohio. He was convert
ed in 1910, and was one of the eleven char
ter members who organized the First
Alexander Church in Athens County. He
was licensed to preach in 1914, at the ur-
gent solicitation of the church, and was
ordained in 1910. Some time after this,
he spent three years in California, preach
ing almo: every Sunday among the min
ers, or wherever he found opportunity.
Before he went to California, his first
wife, Rebecca Conaway, of Jefferson
County, Ohio. had died. leaving five sons
and one daughter. Afterward, all of
these five sons were in the Union army,
and two of them preceded him into eter-
nifty. He is buried by their side at Jack
son.
Twelve years after the death of his first
wife, he married Mrs. Ziare Lucas, wo-
men of deep piety and of great religious
activity, who was a constant helper to
him in his ministry, and whose hands
performed the last services that that he
received on earth.
About 1860, Bro. Carr removed to a
farm near Jackson, where he resided un-
til his death. He was constant in minis
terial labor all this time, and there are
few churches in the Ohio River Y early
Meeting which he did not serve. He was
plain and fervent and forcible in his
preaching. and large numbers were con-
verted under his ministry.
He was actively engaged in work until
about year before his death, when fail
ure of health drove him from it. Some
idea of the extent of his work, and of the
self-sacrifice involved in it, may be gained
from the following condensed record for
1883 and 1884, the last two years of his
active work, when he was far beyond the
age of seventy. He travelled by railroad,
on horseback, and in buggy, 1902 miles,
and held 992 meetings. Almost all of this
service was rendered to weak churches,
to reach which required considerable
travel. He received, for these two years
of service, $425, and paid railroad fare
$115.60. leaving him S3O9.4O.
His last work was to hold prOtracted
meeting with the First Alexander Church,
of which he was pastor most of the time
from his ordination till his DEATH Sew
eral were converted, and five were bap-
t1Zed at this time. His deep earnestness
and spirituality made an unusual impress
sion on the minds of the people, and
many felt, with him, that this was his
last public work for Christ.
For over year preceding his death, he
was in feeble health, and remained close
Iy at home. The circumstances attend
ing his death were peculiarly affecting,
and well befitting the departure of ripe
Christian man. The evening before his
death, he prayed with unusual tenderness
and fervor for his children; and after
wards urged his wife to be less careful of
him, as he feared that her care was great
er than his need demanded, or her
strength justified. The next morning he
had long and cheerful conversation
with dear brother in the ministry. He
then spent some time in reading the
Morning Star, of which he had been
constant reader for forty-two years.
! Then he read in the Bible until cautioned
not to read too long, when he put his
spectacles in the book, to mark his place
the tenth of Mark-and a short time in
the yard. At the dinner table he quietly
ceased eating; in answer to a question,
said he felt unwell; was at once helped to
his bed; and, being swiftly ceased by
return of the disease which had several
times within year almost taken him
from earth, just as the nearest neighbors
arrived, in answer to a call for help, he
quietly expired.
He had expressed wish that his fune-
raj should be attended by Rev. w. J. Full
ton and myself; but the letter that sum-
moned US to this duty did not reach us
until after his burial. Brief services
were held at his house by ministers of
Jackson, and he was buried on April H.
But it was felt that his long and useful
ministry in the Freewill Baptist Church,
and the high esteem in which he was
held, demanded that formal memorial
service should be held by and among his
own people; and the @. M, at the church
where he was converted, and where he
had labored more than any other place.
seemed the fitting time and place. Ac-
cordingly, on July 81, the writer preached
a memorial discourse from Dan. 12: 8, and
appropriate remarks were made by Rev.
j. w. Martin. Many friends from various
places were present, and deep feeling
was produced, when his lifelong com pan
ion, Rev. B. V. Tewksbury, scarcely able
to stand, was helped from his carriage
into the house and near the pulpit, to
share in the last service of respect and |
veneration to his memory.
A life of rich beauty and great useful
ness has ended on earth. With but little |
education to begin with Bro. Carr studied |
so faithfully as to become well-informed |
and well-disciplined preacher; and 1 have |
listened to aCritte7l discourses by him that |
showed much power of systematic and |
sustained thought. He had well-chosen
and well-used library. He was an act
i've supporter of the foreign missionary
work of our church; an especially earnest
worker for the Sunday School. He was a
friend of the slave, when there were
slaves; and, for his utterances in favor of
the bondman, houses were closed against
him, and threats of personal violence
made. Southeastern Ohio has never had
a warmer, more constant, more earnest
worker for temperance than he was. For
a number of years he was one of the trus-
tees of Rio Grande College, and took
deep and active interest in it,
1t may seem that large claim is made
upon the crowded columns of the Star for
space for this memorial article; but he
was worthy to be spoken well of, and to
be held in memory.
JOHN M. DAVIS.
Rio Grande, Ohio.
The matter Of erecting a county
Soldiers Monument will be brought